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3년 전discuss

I tried it a few months ago and ReFS ate my data. No indication of why in event logs or SMART data. It had IsPowerProtected set because I have a UPS and I had a unclean restart, I would expect it to lose data, but not to corrupt the filesystem metadata. I had a backup of the data but wanted some recent changes. Refsutil (the official Microsoft tool) didn't help because it has not been updated for the newest ReFS version. I couldn't read most files because I had integrity enable and files failed the check. Hetman's Data Recovery was able to recover most of the data. In later testing I found out that IsPowerProtected is just very unsafe. I have since put some time into testing and sometimes fixing https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs , it is not ready for use yet, but it is making great progress.

3년 전discuss

Orbstack does not seem to run Windows.

7년 전discuss

Media queries can leak info to the server easily without JavaScript: https://matt.traudt.xyz/p/YF4ciVY6.html

8년 전discuss

They are bad, but it is better than nothing. I think if you are completely deaf they probably are not good enough. For myself, I have some hearing damage from working with fire alarms without hearing protection which makes it sometimes hard to understand speech with some background noise, it also doesn't help that English is not my native language. These subtitles make some videos that are hard for me to understand much better than without, because I am able to combine the hearing that I got with the subtitles to figure out what is being said. So yea, I hope they could improve them, but without them my experience is definitely worse.

8년 전discuss

BCH for small transactions with 0-conf is not slow as hell. When you require confirmations a system like Bitcoin has a quite random time between blocks, but 10 minutes on average.

IOTA has an absolutely unprofessional development team, doing things like saying critical security vulnerabilities are there on purpose so they can point it out when someone forks or saying that the network being unusable due to a DOS attack is fine because they can use it for testing. Don't forget the time they turned off the network for 2 days without any prior notice (yes, they can do that). I'm all for new technology, but Bitcoin is 9 year old proven technology at this point, while IOTA and RaiBlocks are both new and unproven. Let them mature a bit before suggesting people rely on them. Would be quite bad if someone turned off IOTA when you need your money, wouldn't it?

8년 전discuss

How is it a scam to keep it working like it was intended to work? I did not buy into Bitcoin to hold it forever, I bought it to use it as cash. Therefore I do feel defrauded by the current developers, until just yesterday they advertised one thing on their website but delivered something different.

I have kind of mixed feelings about removing ASIC boost. I do feel it is everyones right to innovate and get an advantage, then patent that advantage. It takes money to do that R&D, so it should be protected. Others can do so as well, or operate from countries where these patents are not respected. On the other hand, others have so far been unable to get their own advantages, so maybe it is time to hardfork (yes, hardfork, SegWit does not fix it, not until > 90% of transactions are using SegWit) to prevent getting this advantage.

8년 전discuss

Have a look at my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210897

8년 전discuss

Transaction malleability has nothing to do with the security properties of zero conf, it only allows you to change the signature of a transaction, not the contents. So if you malleated a transaction, you would still end up with a transaction paying the merchant, in no way vanishing like you describe. What does affect the security is if miners violate the first seen rule, which is not a consensus rule, to include transactions that were seen later but have higher fees into their blocks. This allows you to essentially replace a transaction by bribing a miner with a higher fee. Generally the risk of this is seen as low, generally lower than the risk of credit card fraud, so for low value transactions it is generally fine. Malleability breaking the withdrawals of an exchange is a problem with that exchange, not with Bitcoin Cash.

As for developers removing the malleability fix (SegWit) to break the LN, that is just a plain lie. First, SegWit was removed because it is just an hack that can be achieved in much better ways. SegWit is such technical debt because it did in a soft fork what should have been done in a hard fork. Second, you can see on the development mailing list that fixing it has been discussed well, and a fix for third party malleability is actually already active. You can also see that nobody is against 2nd layer systems like Lightning Network, and it will be supported if and when it is actually useful.

The EDA that was in place in the first 3 months was indeed a big mistake and has since been replaced with a well performing fast acting DAA, but it is not the reason people push for 0-conf. 0-conf was a pretty well used and working feature of BTC before the blocks first became full. It is only logical to use it again on a chain that does not intend to let its blocks become full.

9년 전discuss

If you wanted to use a secondary nVidia card for PhysX, all was fine until nVidia changed their driver to disable PhysX when it detected an active AMD card.

9년 전discuss

That was my problem first too, but you can make it require the token on mobile too. I have it set up that way and I need to tap my Yubikey NEO to authenticate using NFC on Android. Works great.

9년 전discuss

It got patched after he posted this. Before that there was no only_uninitialized.

9년 전discuss

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

9년 전discuss

At the 2008 Beijing summer olympics they actually reduced the censorship a little until the games were over.

10년 전discuss

The mplayer keys work in VLC too, BTW.

10년 전discuss

I think the multi tab selection is not part of the extension, but is integrated in Chrome itself. I recently discovered it by accident and found it to be super helpful to do things like splitting a group of tabs into a new window.

10년 전discuss

Did you reply to the right person? Your reply does not seem to address anything that was said.

10년 전discuss

"Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) was invented by Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba circa 1980. According to Toshiba, the name "flash" was suggested by Masuoka's colleague, Shōji Ariizumi, because the erasure process of the memory contents reminded him of the flash of a camera."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#History

10년 전discuss

It would be really nice to have physical hardware that identifies the same as the VMware / VirtualBox hardware.

10년 전discuss

I think you might have replied to the wrong post

10년 전discuss

Wow, finally being able to resize dock widgets. I've been searching for this forever, always thinking I was doing something wrong. At least now I know it wasn't really possible. This finally allows me to get my last major UI task out of my todo list :)